Stephanie Davis was left battered and bruised when her ex, Jeremy McConnell , went on the rampage inside the house she shared with their baby son.

In chilling testimony from the ex-Hollyoaks star, her worried mum and the police officer who worked on the case, a court heard this week how McConnell beat up his on-off girlfriend while she was carrying little Caben.

During the terrifying assault, Stephanie believed she was going to die - and thought her crazed ex would kill their tiny son, then aged just eight weeks.

And this was discussed in detail at Jeremy's appearance in court on Friday, where he was sentenced to 20 weeks in jail suspended for 12 months, it was revealed that the actress suffered bruising to her arms and head, as well as a bit mark.

Speaking at the trail, CPS lawyer Hannah Griffiths told the court: "The crown says there are a number of aggravating features, including the eight week old child who not only witnessed the incident but was also being carried by the victim.”

She added that the injuries to Stephanie were high in the context of a section 39 (common) assault.

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Stephanie Davis was left battered and bruised when her ex, Jeremy McConnell , went on the rampage inside the house she shared with their baby son (Image: Daily Mirror)

During the terrifying assault, Stephanie believed she was going to die - and thought her crazed ex would kill their tiny son, then aged just eight weeks (Image: Daily Mirror)

Steph's night of horror occurred on the night of March 9 2017, the couple had been out for dinner and drinks with friends to celebrate Steph's 24th birthday the day before.

She had drunk a couple of cocktails by the time they were ready to leave but claimed there was an arrangement (one McConnell denied) between them that only one would drink so the other would be able to tend Caben if he woke up in the night.

Despite that, Steph told the court McConnell downed a glass of wine shortly before they left, then later headed to a pub with some of his mates for more drinks.

Jeremy had been drinking and taking drugs on the night of the attack

The Irish model threw his ex around "like a rag-doll", the court heard (Image: Daily Mirror)

He then shared a gram of cocaine with his pals before returning to Stephanie's home in Merseyside, where the assault took place.

Describing the following attack as like something from a horror film, Stephanie told how McConnell - who had taken her phone and left through the front of the house - then climbed over the back fence and tried to kick down her back doors.

"I couldn't find my mobile phone, but he always used to take my mobile in those times, so I was searching everywhere and I couldn't find it and I started to panic," she recalled while crying in the witness stand.

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Stephanie cried on the witness stand as she relived the night (Image: PA)

"Then I heard him go over the gate and I thought, 'this is like a horror film'. He was booting my glass doors with his foot, and I thought the glass was going to shatter.

"I thought, 'this is it, he's going to kill me'."

She claimed Caben was next to the glass doors while his dad was trying to kick them in, leading Steph to take her baby upstairs to safety.

McConnell, who was having a "psychotic episode" according to the prosecution, got back inside the house after snapping the handles off the back doors and throwing them into the garden.

Jeremy, who had previously admitted causing criminal damage to her home, snapped off her door handles to gain entry (Image: Splash News)

She claimed he accused her of having a lesbian affair with her pregnant friend - something he alluded to when arguing with her about the misplacement of a vibrator - and of sleeping with a firefighter who lives on her street.

He attacked her by throwing her around "like a rag-doll" and grabbing her face, repeatedly throwing her onto her bed during the assault, she said.

"He was calling me a slag, that I was fat and that no-one would ever want to touch me again," Stephanie told the court. McConnell denied using the words 'fat' and 'slag'.

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Steph told the court that Jeremy had insulted her before throwing her onto the bed (Image: stephaniedavis88/Instagram)

She was holding baby Caben at the time of the attack (Image: stephaniedavis88/Instagram)

"He put his thumb into the side of my gums, and that's when I really started to panic. He was having, what I know and what Jeremy knows as, 'psychotic episodes'.

"He took my phone off me, and I was trying to get it off him and he was ragging me everywhere. He bit the inside of my arm," the court heard.

Steph texted her friend to ask for her mum Pauline Davis' help, and Pauline arrived at her daughter's house at around 4am on March 10 to find McConnell "sweating profusely" and "clearly" on drugs. He admits to having taken cocaine before returning to the property.

Steph's mum said McConnell was sweating when she arrived at around 4am (Image: Snapchat)

His eyes were bloodshot and 'gone', according to Pauline Davis (Image: Snapchat)

Jeremy had Steph in a headlock, she claimed, and had lifted a bottle of wine as though he was going to smash it over his head, although he denied this in court.

"My mum said she felt sick when she heard. She knows what he's like on cocaine. She was terrified," Steph explained on the stand.

"I took Jeremy into the living room and he started crying when he got there. Jeremy was refusing to leave. He was also saying to my mum, 'you don't like me, do you?'

"He was also convinced I was having a lesbian affair with my pregnant friend, and the fireman across the road. He gets jealous."

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Jeremy was obsessed with the idea Steph was having an affair (Image: Daily Mirror)

He accused her of using a sex toy with her pregnant friend (Image: Flynet Pictures)

She went on: "When I got downstairs to my mum, he'd followed me and he was saying, 'Who have you got here? The f***ing fireman is here isn't he?' and started looking through the house."

Jeremy finally went to bed after vomiting across the bedroom and floor. When asked why neither Steph nor Pauline had called the police to report the assault, Stephanie said she was too scared.

McConnell denied calling her a 'fat slag' and said her claims that he'd bitten her were a "fairytale".

Steph said she thought she was going to die when he was kicking her glass doors (Image: Rex Features)

He also denied that Steph was holding Caben in her arms during the incident and said he'd acted in self-defence - although he did admit to snapping off her door handles while trying to gain access to her house in order to collect his wallet to pay for a taxi.

“I never hit her on the head, I used reasonable force to get her away from me. Whatever part of me connected with my head. I pushed her onto the bed," he told the court during his own testimony.

The judge found McConnell guilty and told the court: "This is a sad story, like many of this sort there is much emotion on both sides."